Jesse Steam Mysteries: The Case of the Clicking Clock
Table of Contents Cast of Characters Meet Jesse Mr Stubbs The Gang 4 Town Map Find Your Way Around Deanville 6 Chapter 1 Bees and Bats and Snoozing Cats 8 Chapter 2 Time Flies and Then It Doesn’t 14 Chapter 3 Over the River and Through the Woods 22 Chapter 4 Cobwebs Spiders and the Smell of Gross Underwear 28 Chapter 5 An Electrical Storm and a Pair of Shifty Green Eyes 38 Chapter 6 Another Day Another Mystery 50 Chapter 7 Harmonic What What What 56 Jesse’s Word List 62 Makerspace Activity Try It Out 64
For My Grandson Liam
Cast of Characters Jesse Steam Amateur sleuth and all-around neat kid Jesse loves riding her bike solving mysteries and most of all Mr Stubbs Jesse is never without her messenger bag and the cool stuff it holds Mr Stubbs A cat with an attitude he’s the coolest tabby cat in Deanville Stubbs was a stray cat who strayed right into Jesse’s heart Can you fi gure out how he got his name Professor Peach A retired university professor Professor Peach knows tons of cool stuff and is somewhat of a legend in Deanville He has college degrees in Science Technology Engineering Art and Math Emmett Professor Peach’s ever-present pet white lab rat He loves cheese balls and wherever you fi nd The Professor you’re sure to fi nd Emmett even though he might be diffi cult to spot Clark Lewis Jesse’s next-door neighbor and sometimes formidable adversary Clark Johnson and his slippery slimy gross-looking pet frog Lewis Yuck 4
Dorky Dougy Clark Johnson’s three-year-old tag-along baby brother Dougy is never without his stuff ed alligator a rubber knife and something really goofy to say like eleventy-seven Kimmy Kat Black Holder of the Deanville Elementary School Long Jump Record know-it-all and self-proclaimed future member of Mensa Kimmy Kat Black lives near the Spooky Tree Liam LePoole A black belt in karate and also the captain of the Deanville Community Swimming Pool Cannonball Team Liam’s best friend is Chompy Dog his stinky gassy and frenzied brown Puggle Lolly Jesse’s feisty grandmother and admitted cat lady Lolly is an avid ukulele player and she always seems to smell like freshly baked chocolate chip cookies Poppie Jesse’s sweet grandfather He is an avid bowler fi sherman and the owner of the world’s largest collection of suspenders black knee socks and bow ties 5
